Blackthorn Press: 164 books

This ebook contains all of Owen's known poems. Only five of them were published while he was alive but fellow poet Siegfried Sassoon, collected  Owen's poems and published them in 1920. It has been said that Owen's poetry shaped the attitude of a generation to the futility and tragedy of war, exemplified by his own life. 

The central theme of these thirteen short stories, mirrors Dorothy Edwards’ own life; that of people’s inability to fully empathise with each other. Her characters mix on a social level, often over tea or at the piano or on walks but when they fully reach out to each other, only disappointment...

The 534 quotations in this collection have been gathered over the last couple of decades as I made my way through (and then began a return journey through) almost everything Trollope wrote. (Forty-three novels are represented; twenty-five stories, thirty-four essays, and nine books of nonfiction....

Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910) is perhaps better known for his epic novels, such as War and Peace and Anna Karenina but he was also a prolific writer of novellas and short stories. This collection of three stories, written for older children, does not shy away from asking demanding questions....

David Herbert Lawrence (1885 - 1930) was the son of a coal-miner and mother from a family with middle-class aspirations. He was a poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist and art critic as well as one of the most consummate writers of novellas of the twentieth century. This new ebook...

David Herbert Lawrence (1885 - 1930) was the son of a coal-miner and a mother from a family with middle-class aspirations. He was a poet, novelist, travel writer, short story writer, art critic as well as one of the most consummate playwrights of the twentieth century. All of D H Lawrence's eight...

‘The Lost Girl’ was published in 1920, although Lawrence had begun it as early as 1913. It was poorly received in England but did better in America and earned Lawrence some of the money he was desperately short of and which was one of the motives which drove him to finish the book.          ...

‘Paul Morel’ is made up of the second and third drafts of the book later to become ‘Sons and Lovers’. The first draft is lost. Lawrence worked on these drafts during 1911.There is much that is familiar but also much that is new. There are scenes from Lawrence’s early childhood, characters...

"Heat, emotion, danger – this story has it all!" - Reader Review He wouldn’t rest until she was his - this time for good. Farrell Black could hardly blame Jenna for leaving after the shootout that almost cost their daughter her life. Now he’ll stop at nothing to protect...

"Left me breathless!" - Reader Review Jenna Carver is done fighting it. She belongs with Farrell Black. Now they just have to stay alive long enough to begin their future together. Fleeing to Paris after the death of Erik Karlsen, Farrell and Jenna are determined to...

A brash mercenary with his own brand of justice. The lonely woman his family almost destroyed. Locke Montgomery has only one purpose — atone for a sin that has tortured him for nearly a decade. With the hard-earned billions from the sale of his tech company, Locke created a new identity...

Yorkshire was part of the Roman Empire for about 340 years and the remains of the period are all around us to this day. They range from the Roman fortress walls at York to the sites of country villas and humbler farmsteads. The region’s museums are full of Roman objects from fine sculpture to the...

The name of Rowntree will always be associated with the making of chocolates and sweets and with its home town of York. Yet, as Paul Chrystal shows in this book, there was much more to this remarkable family than profitable manufacturing. Driven by their Quaker faith, generations of the Rowntree family...

Lawrence and his wife Frieda left England in 1919 and for the next eleven years until Lawrence’s death in 1930 in Vence in Southern France, where he is buried, they travelled and lived across the world with only occasional return visits to England. They lived in Europe, Australia and South America,...